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CVE-2023-0145: Saan World Clock <= 1.8 - Contributor+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2023-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Saan World Clock WordPress plugin through 1.8 does not validate and escape some of its shortcode attributes before outputting them back in a page/post where the shortcode is embed, which could allow users with the contributor role and above to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks.

Affected products

• Saan World Clock: through 1.8

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f4e4b4a2-c7cb-42ce-9d5b-bd84efcbf54d
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/f4e4b4a2-c7cb-42ce-9d5b-bd84efcbf54d

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